CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9151, 21 May 1908, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association.—Copyright. London May 20. King Edward jjwill start on the 29th to spend a week with the Czar and Ozaritza. Sir J G. Lowther, British Minister at Tangier, succeeds the late Sir N. O’Oonor as Ambassador at Constantinople. New York, May 20. The United States Congress appropriated a million and a half dollars for participation in the Tokio Exhibition in 1912. Hobart May 20. A quantity of wreckage supposed to be from the Orion has been found on Barren Island. There is no trace of the passengers, ‘ Sydney, May 20. The election to fill the vacancy in the St. George electorate, caused by Mr Oarruthers’ visit to England, took place to-day, when Mr Taylor (Ministerialist) was elected by a la r ge majority over Labour. Received May 21, 8.55 a.m. London, May 20. Madame Melba made a brilliant rentree at Covent Garden, in La Boheme, and received an unusually enthusiastic reception owing to it being her birthday. Queen Alexandra was present. Galleryites waited at the doors for ten hours. May 20. ~ George Sterry, a multimillionaire of New York, was murdered by his" "son, because he proposed to marry a young wife. Constantinople, May 20. The Porte, under threat of other proceedings, accepted the terms of M. Oonstans, the French Ambassador for the settlement of the Heraclea coal mines dispute in Asia Minor. ■ Received May 21/ £8.50 a.m. Loudon, May 20. A majority of Lancashire and Oheshirre miners voted in favour of affiliation with the Labour Representation Committee. On the motion of Mr Lyttleton, M.P., an important meeting of supporters of the Shakespearian Memorial, appointed a committee .to draft a scheme for a National Theatre. King’s Colonial Volunteer Corps have been established at Oxford and Cambridge Universities; all the Rhodes scholars and most of the Australians have joined. The Rhodes’, trustees will provide horses for the Oxford corps. A memorial to William Dampier, navigator, has been erected at his birthplace. East Coker. Received May 21 10.21 a. m. Sydney, May 21. Mr Williamson states that he believes that Drury Lane people played Mother Goose in 1902, hut the Mother Goose which he played and for which he bought the rights from the author, was first produced in Manchester in 1906. He fails to see where" the Drury Lane claim comes in. Melbourne, May 21. Sir W. Lyne brought down additional estimates providing for expenditure of £571,000. He estimates the revenue at £15,315,000, leaving a surplus to be returned to the States of £9,189,000. Hobart, May 21. . A funnel and ladder, positively identified as belonging to the Orion, have been found east of Tasman Head.